"A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs."

-- Ferdinand de Saussure

#Language Quotes #Individual Quotes #Organs Quotes

“A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.”
“On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.”
“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”
“Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.”
“There’s a window of opportunity with every girl and once that passes it becomes impossible to bang.”

Source : "30 Bangs: The Shaping Of One Man's Game From Patient Mouse To Rabid Wolf". Book by Roosh V, March 7, 2012.
“who is invisible enough to see you”

Source : Paul Celan (2014). “Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition”, p.116, Macmillan
“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”
“In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.”

Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.

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